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te) wd bred by cl | Detroit File 100-6603 CONF! WAL % ‘ * ‘ of members other than the last names being BEY or EL. po a . Informant “ey a m.mber by the name - ~ whe. wesae the nome a he jie emnlawed he tha Set eo all a ee woe ow 4 spiritualist preacher and wanted him to follow the ways of members of the MOORISH SCIENCE TERMPIE. Informant advised that the teachings of this organization are thet the white man brought the Negro from Africa years ago although the teachers stated thet the Negro was not a Negro but an Asiatic and thet the white man enslaved him and gave him his surname and that the Negro, or Asiatic's, real surname was BEY or EL or aome other Arabic name. He stated that the authorities in the temnle apparently make up these nemes, but they impress on the Negrces that they kmow from supernatural powers what the Negro's correct surname was from his forbears in Asia. The Negre, the Informant advised, keeps his surname and adds the name of BEY or EL to the surname although sometimes the Moslema use other Arabic names. He stated that the Koran is the Bible that the Negroes use and thet the favorite preach- ing is that the Japanese will teke over America and will not touch members of the MOORISH SCIENCES TEXPLE OF AMERICA. Ho steted thet the speakers claim thet et the right time the Japanese will have a4 supply ship near to Americas where all the Negroes who ere members of the MOORISH SCIENC# TEMPLE OF AKCRICA cen get arms to rise up against the white people and also thet the Jepanese $ would know the Negroes by their Asiatic names end woul who vee merried to e colored strumental in st:rting this ore Japanese by the name o women by the neme o ganization. The writer talked Bh one craneg oseergine of the 13th precinct regarding » possible meeting plece for the Moslems the vicinity of Ceanfizld end St. Antoine and the Licutenant edvised thet there wes some kind of e church in the rear of 545 Cenfield Strest where Negroes met on certain ocessions znd he th-t he would try to escertain whet went on there. thet eight or nine years ego there had been some sort of a Moslem sacrifice in Detroit and atated that he believed this took place near police headquarters and that the temp ace vas in the 9th precinct. The writer talked wit Geis: charge of detectives, and he advised that he had be watching the address of 9316 Oaklend Avenue, which is in his precinct, as there had been numerous meetings there of some kind of a Moslem sect and he stated that so far they had had no trouble. He advised that about eight or nine years aga he believed in 1934, a man had been sacrificed in one of th Negro tamplea downtown and he atated thet the Homicide Squad had a record of this. -e- OCONFPINTAL ay T iN ee cage neg ten ee ee ae ee on nig OE Te deeds fp le